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Adobe Reader 9

Adobe Acrobat Reader 9, while not exactly what you could call Puppy friendly weighing in at a hefty 58mb and may not be for everyone. Although if you are using a more up to date hardware you will find it very good. According to Adobe you should have a 1.3-GHz processor or higher, 512 MB of RAM and 985 MB of available hard-disk space.

Artha Thesaurus

Artha is an English thesaurus that works completely off-line and is based on WordNet. The version here was compiled for Puppy-431 and lacked a couple of dependencies for 412 that are included here. There is a lot more info for Artha on the forum.

For some reason there is no menu entry but if you drag the ‘artha.desktop’ file from ‘/usr/share/applications’ on to the desktop you can then run Artha from the desktop. The following was taken from another forum post regarding Artha.

If your computer has limited RAM, please note this is a "terminate & Stay resident" application so that it may be called up from any program using a hot-key combination. EDITED: Errata deleted. Per Artha thread, Right-clicking its taskbar icon enables closing the app completely.

Unfortunately SoftMaker has discontinued SoftMaker Office 2008 and the free registration that goes with it and the free registration you get with the 2012 version does not work with the 2008 version (I’ve tried it, so don’t bother). However, if you have a SMO2008 registration it can be downloaded from here.

The good news. the 2012 version is even better and can read MS docx files. See above for download.

Stardict

A fantastic dictionary for Puppy Linux with many more dictionaries available for download. Tarball includes dependencies. I have also packaged some UK English dictionaries into dotpets below.

Xournal, A journal/sketching application

Xournal is an application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus. It is similar to Microsoft Windows Journal or to other alternatives such as Jarnal, Gournal, and NoteLab. Can also open and annotate PDF documents.